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First time at Love Park since it opened as I was away on the weekend. Btw I was wondering if anyone thinks that it is a good idea to start a Go Fund Me page to raise money to install the heart above the pond as originally intended?!
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Photos taken 26 June.
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First time at Love Park since it opened as I was away on the weekend. Btw I was wondering if anyone thinks that it is a good idea to start a Go Fund Me page to raise money to install the heart above the pond as originally intended?! Photos taken 26 June.

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See @AlvinofDiaspar 's post here: https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/threads/love-park-3m-1s-city-of-toronto-ccxa.28363/post-1961799

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Ok.....I fibbed, 2 complaints.

No this isn't about the garbage bins themselves, ugly as sin though they are..........it's that they're on the @#$ @ lawn! It's a brand new park, if they had asked Cormier to get them a pad for the bins there, he would have, within the budget too, it's nothing burger.

From @rdaner ''s pic:

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First time at Love Park since it opened as I was away on the weekend. Btw I was wondering if anyone thinks that it is a good idea to start a Go Fund Me page to raise money to install the heart above the pond as originally intended?! View attachment 487938Photos taken 26 June.View attachment 487939View attachment 487940View attachment 487941View attachment 487942View attachment 487943View attachment 487944View attachment 487945View attachment 487946View attachment 487947View attachment 487948View attachment 487949View attachment 487950View attachment 487951View attachment 487952

They have definitely tinted that water. Good call.
 
A couple of notes.......

We discussed cleaning/filtration of the water a few pages back:

I have confirmed that both Ozone and UV disinfection are being used.

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On the subject of the Waterfront BIA, they not only sponsored and will be looking after the park's movable furniture, they also sponsored the bronze sculptures.

I think it might be nice if a few of us sent messages of appreciation to the BIA to encourage more of this, both here and at any other new signature parks such as Rees.
 
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I just can't get past the fact Toronto deems this garbage bin situation to be acceptable. In any park really, but in a signature park like this it's downright embarrassing to not have an integrated/designed garbage solution.
You are just scraping the surface with the parks department.. trying to run things on a shoestring budget and even then doing it poorly.
 
I have confirmed that both Ozone and UV disinfection are being used.

This reminds me of two fun little tidbits I gathered from a friend who worked on the project: one, the combination of treatment techniques was chosen over the standard basic approach so that if (when) dogs drink the water, they don't get sick.

Two, the pergola was over-engineered such that it has sufficient load bearing capacity to withstand as many Raptors fans as could conceivably climb atop it during the next championship parade (joke sort of being that if it were just the Leafs who played out of the arena nextdoor they wouldn't have had to worry about it, har har...). In each instance where the pergola touches the ground, it sits atop an unusually large and deep piling driven below grade.
 
This reminds me of two fun little tidbits I gathered from a friend who worked on the project: one, the combination of treatment techniques was chosen over the standard basic approach so that if (when) dogs drink the water, they don't get sick.

Two, the pergola was over-engineered such that it has sufficient load bearing capacity to withstand as many Raptors fans as could conceivably climb atop it during the next championship parade (joke sort of being that if it were just the Leafs who played out of the arena nextdoor they wouldn't have had to worry about it, har har...). In each instance where the pergola touches the ground, it sits atop an unusually large and deep piling driven below grade.

Three (bonus Pergola info) there are silva cells underneath so the vines can grow deep roots!
 
Do you know whether there's a watering system for the vines? Those roots seem like they'd be almost entirely under hardscape.

I don't know; but, I think it's fair to say soils in the park will hold water unusually well:


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